Last week the Guardian published an open letter from some of the UK’s foremost Russia-excusers, attacking Fiona Hill and accusing the defence review she copiloted of “warmongering“ for recommending preparations to defend against Russia.

Today, a reply.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Reminder: the deadline for the 2025 Danyliw Research Seminar on Contemporary Ukraine is Thursday June 26! Open to scholars and graduate students, with book panels and film screenings. Displaying the resilience of Ukrainians and Ukrainian studies!
www.danyliwseminar.com/call-for-pro...

Mon passage à 2460 (RDI, Radio-Canada) hier soir, au lendemain de cette attaque invraisemblable des services de sécurité ukrainiens sur la flotte de bombardiers russes.
ici.radio-canada.ca/rdi/24-60/si...

The Danyliw Research Seminar on Contemporary Ukraine -- the most exciting academic gathering in Ukrainian studies, will be back on 25-27 September! Call for Proposals (26 June deadline). Open to doctoral students, scholars, films, book panels. International.
www.danyliwseminar.com/call-for-pro...

The Danyliw Research Seminar on Contemporary Ukraine -- the most exciting academic gathering in Ukrainian studies, will be back on 25-27 September! Call for Proposals (26 June deadline). Open to doctoral students, scholars, films, book panels. International.
www.danyliwseminar.com/call-for-pro...

Les Ukrainiens font la guerre en mettant des canons français sur des barges flottantes en pleine mer, en tuant des haut-gradés russe en plein Moscou avec des trottinettes piégés et en détruisant 34% de la flotte de bombardiers stratégiques russes avec des drones planqués dans le toit de camions.

Yes.

Johann Chapoutot, Les Irresponsables, Gallimard, 2025.

Réplique à Yves Gingras. « Contre ce qui menace les conditions mêmes de l’exercice de l’art et de la science, la neutralité n’existe plus »
www.ledevoir.com/opinion/idee...

we shouldn't be altering our behaviour as democratic citizens. I expect freedom of speech and the rule of law and won't adjust to creeping US autocratization by self-censoring. We should be exposing and confronting autocratization in whichever form we encounter it.

This is bonkers, of course, but the point on threat to Europe does deserve clarification. Every time I present my book on Russia's centuries-long obsession with controlling Ukraine, there would be someone in the audience, often a Balt or a Pole, who would ask: So it is just about Ukraine only, then?

Some thoughts from Brussels. Europe is awoken and believes America is all but gone. As such huge efforts on defense funding from EU, Germany, and others. This is real. BUT...

Europe is still not reckoning yet with its major structural security problem: No one does European defense. 1/

Contente d'avoir pu participer depuis Kyiv à l'émission de @cdanslair de ce soir consacrée aux conséquences de la décision de Washington de stopper l'envoi d aide militaire à l'Ukraine

Emission à retrouver ici 🔗👇
www.france.tv/france-5/c-d...

The US is starting to resemble the Global South where majorities recognize Pu's russia as the aggressor, hate Putin, and support Ukraine but their governments play geopolitical games that make them minimize or ignore Russia's illegal war.
Don't be fooled, the world knows Russia is the aggressor.

Watch for a major rally around the president and leaders in Ukraine.

I may need write a book called “the Trump Vance Effect” …

With @darelasn.bsky.social we discussed what we've all learned in 3 yrs of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine and where things are headed. Thanks to @ukrainesolidarity.bsky.social for organizing and hosting! You can check out the video on their YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@UkraineSoli...

“Ce qui est nouveau et dramatique est l'alignement idéologique de l'Amerique de Trump avec la Russie contre les valeurs démocratiques occidentales”. Notre billet, Katia et moi, en ce 3e anniversaire de cette terrible guerre. (Bon, mon prénom est Dominique...)
www.lapresse.ca/dialogue/opi...

Great to see our data making the rounds

edition.cnn.com/2025/02/19/p...

The question of sending European troops to Ukraine is the only one that really matters today. It is the only guarantee that can credibly prevent a new 🇷🇺 aggression in the future and firmly anchor 🇺🇦 to 🇪🇺.

Every single word in this thread by Stathis is true.

I’m in Munich and people keep asking me to decode Vance’s speech. OK: In Vance English “free speech” means “Let Musk run your elections” and “democracy” means “let Russia run your elections.” Now move on. 2025 is about what Europeans do, not what Americans say.

Les bons réflexes face à l’actualité de la guerre russe contre l’Ukraine.

J’enfonce sans doute des portes ouvertes, mais depuis 2022, les commentaires sur la guerre ont dérivé tant de fois qu’il vaut mieux répéter les évidences.

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1. Ne pas enlever à l’Ukraine sa subjectivité. En parler comme d’un objet de négociations, ce n’est pas adopter une lecture réaliste: c’est adhérer à la vision russe d’une Ukraine qui ne compte pas parce qu’elle n’existe pas. Qui n'est qu'un corps géographique qui peut être démembré.
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